Sat, 08 Oct 2005
Jeff Waugh - In London October 14th!
In the past I posted about the possibility of Jeff
Waugh coming to GLLUG and I can now happily confirm he will be joining
us on October 14th for the evening. This is a day after the next Ubuntu
release so we might get the first talk on the shiny new features before we
go for food and drink at the near by Greenman pub.
This GLLUG will be a lot shorter than the usual and will be more socially focused as it's on a Friday evening. The venue is the usual New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University (here's a Streetmap to the location. It's also not a huge amount of notice so we're not expecting the usual huge turn out but if you're free then join us for either the talk or the people.
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Posted: 2005/10/08 13:52 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Pragmatic Investment Plan 2005/2006 -- Restart
After a rubbish first start (just two entries in four months) I decided to
scrap my 2005/2006
Pragmatic Investment Plan and start again. Between insanity both
professionally, I changed jobs, and in my personal life nothing seemed to be
moving. And sometimes you just need to wipe the slate clean and start
again.
I kicked back off with the Linux Expo and FUDCon, both of which were excellent and will be covered in another post and by buying some more books. Which always makes me feel better :)
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Posted: 2005/10/08 13:34 | /unixdaemon | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Identity 2.0 OSCON Presentation
I finally got around to watching the entertaining and very well rehearsed OSCON 2005 Identity
2.0 Keynote by Dick Hardt. The presentation itself is very catchy; a
large number of very short slides that stop you getting bored (very
Lessig). I hate to think how long he spent getting them together. My
favourite was the MS Passport slide, which, slide-by-slide, summarises
the whole story of Passport in a single element.
Sxip itself is an interesting idea and the move from businesscentric silos to user centric ones is well over due but I'm curios as to how you boot strap something like this. If you go to a company like Amazon and ask them to accept login details from you then a benefit needs to be offered. But what is it? Lowering the customers cost of entry by not making them enter all their details is nice but you need a big customer base to make this fly. And how do you get them?
If the topic's of interests it's also worth listening to Dick Hardt talking to IT Conversations. It's not as pithy but provides more information.
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Posted: 2005/10/08 09:09 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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